Radio scintillations observed during atmospheric occultations of Voyager: Internal gravity waves at Titan and magnetic field orientations at Jupiter and Saturn

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Nov 1983

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Ph.D. Thesis Stanford Univ., CA. Center for Radar Astronomy.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Atmospheric Scattering, Gravity Waves, Planetary Atmospheres, Radio Occultation, Satellite Atmospheres, Voyager Project, Covariance, Jupiter Atmosphere, Planetary Ionospheres, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Refractivity, Saturn Atmosphere, Spectrum Analysis

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The refractive index of planetary atmospheres at microwave frequencies is discussed. Physical models proposed for the refractive irregularities in the ionosphere and neutral atmosphere serve to characterize the atmospheric scattering structures, and are used subsequently to compute theoretical scintillation spectra for comparison with the Voyager occultation measurements. A technique for systematically analyzing and interpreting the signal fluctuations observed during planetary occultations is presented and applied to process the dual-wavelength data from the Voyager radio occultations by Jupiter, Saturn, and Titan. Results concerning the plasma irregularities in the upper ionospheres of Jupiter and Saturn are reported. The measured orientation of the irregularities is used to infer the magnetic field direction at several locations in the ionospheres of these two planets; the occultation measurements conflict with the predictions of Jovian magnetic field models, but generally confirm current models of Saturn's field. Wave parameters, including the vertical fluxes of energy and momentum, are estimated, and the source of the internal gravity waves discovered in Titan's upper atmosphere is considered.

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